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1. A crime scene is any location that may be associated with a committed crime. 

2. making sure that everyone in the area is safe and isolate the area to preserve evidence.

3. Job Duties of a Crime Scene Investigator

• Attending and documenting autopsies.

• Maintaining the equipment used to collect evidence.

• **Collect evidence at the crime scene.

• Recording, photographing and preserving physical evidence.

• Securing crime scenes to prevent the tampering with, or contamination of, evidence.

4. Team leaders are responsible for training team members, setting strategy, and monitoring progress towards goals. Good leaders should have strong communication, problem-solving, organizational, and delegation skills.

5. Team leaders can typically grow into managers and, eventually, senior leadership.

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6. Securing the scene, initial survey/walkthrough, documenting the scene (photography and sketching), conducting a systematic search, collecting and packaging evidence, and maintaining chain of custody

7. For an outdoor crime scene, the most appropriate search method is typically a grid search where the area is divided into smaller squares

8. gently applying adhesive tape over the print, which then picks up the residue.

9. The biggest differences between a Medical Examiner and coroner is that coroners are elected officials and Medical Examiners have to be licensed physicians.

10. Rigor mortis is the stiffening of the muscles after death, which occurs due to chemical changes in the muscle tissue.

11. Livor mortis, which is Latin for “bluish color of death,” is a change in the skin color following death.

12. An autopsy, or post mortem, is the medical examination of a body and the internal organs after a person has died.

13. Autopsies are required when there is evidence or reasonable suspicion of foul play.

14. A pathologist performs a CT scan on a deceased person to help determine the cause of death by providing detailed images of internal organs and skeletal structures

15. After examining the exterior of the body during an autopsy, the next step is to perform an internal examination

16. It seems like the answer options are missing from your query. Besides determining the cause, manner, and mode of death, a Medical Examiner's office duties can include a variety of tasks

17. Antemortem: before death; bone damage in antemortem injuries shows evidence of healing. Postmortem: after death; in postmortem injuries, bone damage occurring at or near the time of death, without any evidence of healing.

18. Most frequently, forensic entomologists estimate the age of immature insects collected on a death scene and use this information as the minimum PMI

19. By identifying the species of fly and determining their life stage, forensic entomologists can estimate the time of death.

20.  the manner of death, length of the postmortem …

21. when human remains are discovered, including suspected burials, fire-related deaths, or sudden deaths.

22. Ifi were to assume it looks like the guy was shot on his right side of the body twice and because its decayingits safe to say itsd been a little bit of time maybe a day or two.